Horror Poster Analysis

Sound Editing in My Film

The songs in which I have used for my trailer are the following:
The Conjuring [soundtrack] 04 'Witch Perch'
The Shallows Official Trailer Music
Colossal Trailer Music 'Paranormal Most Epic Hybrid Horror Music'
Colossal Trailer Music - Anomaly Most Epic Hybrid Horror Music

I also used the following sound effect from iMovie:
Thunder Roll (used twice)
Door Vault Closing
Dark Drone Suspense

I also created my own sound effect using the sound of branches snapping to create a sound effect in one my shots.

Film Magazine Front Cover: Research

These are the four magazines I will be looking into in order to decide which one I would like to use for my film. I chose these as I liked the different layouts each magazine portrays, and how different some of them look.

Total Film is a UK-based film magazine which is published monthly and a summer issue is added every year, by Future Publishing.The magazine was launched in 1997 and offers cinema, DVD and Blu-ray news, reviews and features. Total Film is available as a print magazine, but also available to mobile devices to download.

Total Film tends to use action/thriller films on the front cover of their magazine, usually portraying the main character/characters. I feel my film would suit this magazine due to its genre.

Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc., that covers film, television, music, B theatre, books and pop culture. Entertainment Weekly targets a more general audience rather than a smaller more specific readers, broadening it's audience.

This magazine covers many different platforms of entertainment, especially TV series/shows. I feel this may be less suited for my magazine as my project is a horror film and may not be advertised as well in a magazine that has such a broad amount of content.

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media. Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling film magazine in the United Kingdom and is also published in the United States, Australia, Turkey, Russia, Italy and Portugal. Empire organises the annual Empire Awards and the awards are voted for by readers of the magazine.

Empire focuses on films, and mainly uses action/thriller films as their front covers. I think this magazine may be suitable for my horror film as the genre fits very well and I also really like the layouts that this film magazine uses.

Little White Lies is an internationally distributed movie magazine. It is published by London-based media company TCOLondon.

I like how unique this magazine is, and how it makes photographs into drawings. This magazine is very different, however I don't feel it would suit my magazine as it is a horror film, and this magazine rarely uses a horror film as its front cover.



Editing Day 5

1. This is the opening part the the final sequence of my film. It is a long shot of a door at the end of a corridor. I feel this gives the sense that someone is walking towards the door. I have used a Ken Burns effect on this shot. I darkened the shot and was he out the saturation in order to create a spooky atmosphere.

2. This is a low angle shot of the main character, walking towards the bathtub. The length of each shot is more and a few seconds long in order to build up tension and to drag out the silence. Again I washed out the colour and dimmed the lighting in this shot to create a darker atmosphere.

3.  A close-up of the character's hand turning on the bathtub is used as I feel this adds to the eeriness of the scene. The quiet atmosphere adds a creepy tone, and the sound of only the tap running makes everything even more eerie. The saturation has been washed out as vibrancy would not suit this sort of genre.

4. A medium shot of the character in order to show the character moving from one place to another within the scene.

5. This shot is n over the shoulder shot in order to show what the character is doing. I cropped this frame in order  keep the focus on the main character.

6. This is a medium close up of the character, as well as a tracking shot in order to follow what they are doing.

7. This is a point of view shot used in order to make the audience feel as if they are the character, looking down into the bathtub when the tap suddenly turns off.

8. A close up of the character's reaction of confusion. 

9. This is a shot which pans from right to left to reveal the creature-like character. I have dimmed the lighting, washed out bright colours and lowered the saturation in order to create a horror-like atmosphere in all of these shots in order to create a spooky look. I feel this was a really good idea as it makes the scene even more scary.

10. This is a shot in which I edited in photoshop in order to manipulate the character. I used a series of tools in order to achieve this creepy look to make the character look more creature-like. I feel this really adds to the horror genre.

Editing Day 4

1. This is an over the shoulder shot of the two main characters (Kate and Carl) talking in their new home. This shot allows the plot of the film to progress through dialogue and also denotes the expression of Carl. 

2. This shot follows on from the previous shot. It is an over the shoulder shot which allows the trailer to denote the facial expression of Kate.

3. This is a medium shot of Kate which tilts up from down to up in order to reveal Carl's expression. This shot has been altered post-production in order to make the atmosphere gloomy and eerie.

4. This is a medium close-up of Carl, which tilts upwards in order to reveal his facial expression. This shot has been adjusted to look left colourful and vibrant in order to make it fit in with the horror genre.

5. This medium shot follows on from the previous shot, denoting Kate. This shot has also been altered to look less colourful and vibrant to fit with the horror genre.

6. This is a very long, point of view shot of Kate getting into a car. This P.O.V shot allows the audience to feel like they themselves are watching her and makes them feel part of the film.

7. This shot follows on from the previous shot, denoting a medium close-up of Carl, watching Kate. I like this shot as it  shows there is sunlight outside, yet he is masked by the shadow which gives connotations of evil and mystery.

8. This is a medium tracking shot of Kate, running through a corridor away from Carl.

9. This shot follows on from the previous shot which denotes Carl running after Kate. These two shots have been altered to look dark, dull and colourless in order to fit with the horror genre. The shot is also a low angle shot in order to make Carl look powerful and dominant in this situation. This is a typical convention of a horror; making the villain appear bigger and stronger through low angle shots as it appears they are looking down on everyone else.

10. This is a medium-long two shot of Carl being aggressive towards Kate. This shot is placed in a build-up sequence in order to create a crescendo. 

11. This is a close-up, over the shoulder shot of Kate hiding under a table, denoting what appears to be Carl's feet walking infant of her. This puts the audience on edge and builds tension as to whether Carl will find her or not, but this is not revealed as this is just a trailer. 

12. This a a long shot of Carl storming towards the camera with a knife to look scary and intimidating. This shot, like many of the others, has been altered to look dull and gloomy to fit with the typical conventions of the horror genre.